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Researchers in Oxford have been studying great tits for 75 years. They discovered something odd (and human-like) about their song
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (204+ words) As part of the long-running Wytham Wood research project, great tits and blue tits are being studied Great tits begin to sing again at the end of February, even on bitter days when it still feels very much like the…...
436-million-year-old fossil found in South China is oldest complete bony fish ever discovered
3+ hour ago (468+ words) The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates. After more than a decade of fieldwork and exhaustive laboratory work, a team from the Chinese Academy of…...
It’s up to 40 miles wide, contains billions of creatures and can take 20 years to form – is this nature’s most destructive swarm?
22+ hour, 11+ min ago (165+ words) In astonishing footage from Planet Earth, swarms of desert locusts decimate vegetation Across the deserts from Africa to India, when conditions are right, the desert locust will swarm in vast numbers. Their eggs, which have sometimes remained in the ground…...
It’s almost twice as long as Washington state and is home to 130 species – including fish-eating spiders
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (380+ words) Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world " but where is it? The longest cave system in the world is named, rather fittingly, Mammoth Cave. Found underneath Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, the cave has been mapped…...
"Can you imagine being chased by an apex predator?” Tourists watch incredible escape in Antarctica
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (356+ words) Tourists were stunned when a pair of orcas tried to hunt a gentoo penguin alongside their ship. Here's what happened next. Wildlife watchers in Antarctica were amazed when a lone gentoo penguin managed to outsmart hunting orcas by racing and…...
This area of the North Atlantic ocean is infamous for shipwrecks and conspiracy theories. But does anything live there?
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (233+ words) Does anything live in the Bermuda Triangle? Quite a lot actually, as Melissa Hobson explains The Bermuda Triangle, in the North Atlantic Ocean, has become infamous for the planes and ships that are said to have vanished without a trace…...
Divers saw this ocean giant approaching – and noticed it wasn’t alone...
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (267+ words) Researchers have documented "an entire community" of animals travelling with whale sharks " the world's biggest fish. Researchers in the Gal'pagos have shared awe-inspiring footage of the many different animals that can be found travelling alongside whale sharks, the world's biggest…...
"It repeatedly swam away from and then back to the corpse, touching it and swimming in circles underneath it" – 7 animals that mourn the dead
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (413+ words) For centuries, animals have been observed expressing apparent sorrow at the passing of a group-mate. Many have been our closest cousins, the monkeys and apes, but grief-like behaviours have also been reported in whales, elephants and even magpies. Laysan albatrosses…...
No that's not a golf ball on its head – one man-made very weird species...
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (119+ words) Discover on of the world's weirdest fish that was entirely man made. If every face tells a story, this one might have a sorry tale to relate about the time a golf ball landed in its pond. But there's been…...
Do seabirds drink saltwater?
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (73+ words) We take a look at the drinking habits of seabirds We take a look at the drinking habits of seabirds Yes seabirds can drink saltwater. On land they prefer to drink (and bathe) in fresh water, but at sea they…...